Artificial fish-bait



UNITED vSTATI-:s

PATENT OFFICEo ERNEST F. PFLUEGER, OF AKRON, OHIO.

ARTIFICIAL FISH-BAIT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 284,056, dated August 28, 1883.

Application filed June 21, 1883.

To aun/7mm, it may. concern:

Be it known that I, ERNEST F. PFLUEGER, 'a citizen of the United States, residing at Akron, Ohio, have invented new and useful Improvements in Artificial Fish-Bait, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in artificial fish-baits, and 'particularly to that class in which a gaudy,

tion consisting in the particular features of' construction and ornamentation hereinafter fully explained and specifically claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a side elevation of a bait embodying the features of my invention; Fig. 2, a central longi- 2 5 tudinal section of the same, and Fig. 3 a transverse longitudinal section. Similar letters indicate like parts in the several figures of the drawings.

A representsa minnow made of malleable 3o glass. On the upper half of the interior surface is deposited silver or gold fiuid, B, to produce a highly reflective appearance, and the lower half of the interior surface I coat with any suitable luminous compound, either self-luminous, as phosphoric compounds, or luminous by an inherent retentive power.

brilliant, or rapidly-moving object is used to (No model.)

The substance which I prefer to employ is a paint composed of sulphide of calcium and a drying oil or varnish 5 but any other phosphorescent material or compound may be used. I pass through the interior of the minnow a snood, D, to which the hook E is attached, the hook and snood pass longitudinally through the bait, and are held in position, and the interior coated surfaces of the What I do claim, and desire to secure by v As a new article of manufacture, an artificial fish-bait composed of' hollow glass, having the upper half of its interior surface coated with silver or gold fluid to produceV a highly reiiective surface, the lower half of the interior surface coated with luminous compound or paint, and a centrally-arranged hook-snood,A

the whole protected by a filling of cement or other suitable material, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

nRNnsfr F. PFLUEGER.

Witnesses:

FRANK M. ATTERHOLT, ADAM: YERRIcK. 

